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August 20, 2009

G120: Red Sox 8, Blue Jays 1

Three games of productive batting practice before we start a real series against the Yankees!

Lester (8-3-1-2-5, 105) allowed a single, double and walk to the first three Toronto hitters in the first inning. A GIDP scored a run, but Lester was on for the rest of his evening, allowing only one additional hit. Those first two Jays hitters were the only Jays to touch second base.

J.D. Drew was the hitting star for the Sox, going 4-for-4 with two home runs, three RBI and three runs scored. Victor Martinez hit a moon shot dong in the seventh.

The Jays also made some very stupid plays in the field. One of the their errors was by Cecil in the fourth inning. Jason Bay was on first. After ball 2 to David Ortiz, catcher Rod Barajas threw the ball back to Cecil. It glanced off his glove and rolled towards shortstop. Cecil went and got it, looked at it, and casually tossed it away. Time had not been called, however, so it was a two-base error (the ball went into the 3B dugout) and Bay jogged to third.

Terry Francona loves this part of the season, as long as his team is in contention:

[C]oming to the ballpark this time of year, being nervous, is an unbelievable feeling. When I was in Philadelphia, ... you get to September and ... we're out there trying to tell ourselves we're going to try to win today and be the spoiler. You know what? [Expletive] that. That's not that much fun.

Boston is 1 GA of Texas in the Wild Card. ... (You didn't go jump off any tall buildings like the mediots told you to do on Sunday, did you?)

If my day wasn't so awesome to begin with that would have made my day!

And by the way.. Since we're 1 GA in the WC (It's too bad it wasn't the Yankees in the WC because that's just some awesome toilet symmetry there)... WE'RE GONNA WIN THE WILDCARDDDDD. It's gonna happen! Cause we're ahead! Right, Obie?

Actually you look at this lineup and this thing looks AWESOME!!! This is the lineup we should have the rest of the year. Look at that! Nevermind how any of them are doing... Just look at those names on the lineup!

Ellsbury, Pedroia, Martinez, Youkilis, Bay, Ortiz, Lowell, Drew, and then the pitcher! Pretty much. That SHOULD be a STACKED lineup.

buffy was funny this inning. he was insisting that snider (who he just about proposed to when snider was batting last inning -- calling him a prodigy with thunder in his bat who can do special things) could have caught drew's dong if his foot had not gotten stuck in the mesh fence. then later on, he referred to drew's homer as a "wall scraper".

I'm not living in any loser fantasy world. I watch every game and it seems like Boston is frequently leaving people on and hitting into DPs. It gets me frustrated and I sometimes need to vent. But I'll try to be more positive here from now on. And not bring up our mortal enemies.

Jeff, I know it gets frustrating - but while our team is having a LOBotomy and GIDPing all over the place, so are all the other teams. There's no evidence that the Sox leave more men on base than any other team - except maybe the teams that don't get any men on base in the first place.

For me, anyway, there's a big difference between saying "I hate when the Red Sox do X" and "the Yankees would never do X". Remember what we think of mystique and aura.

catcher throws ball back to cecil, it hits off his glove and rolls out towards ss. he picks it up and (thinking it is scuffed or something, i guess) tosses it off into foul territory. BUT HE DID NOT CALL TIME, so it was a live ball -- and the two bases means it probably went into the 3b dugout!

Has the dong cycle ever been done? I see there's 15 players with 4-dong days, but didn't find the kinds.

I am still trying to decipher it. I assume a dong cycle is hitting 4 in a game. So what does Ofer mean by "the kinds"? I guess he is gone, but maybe I am just being dense and someone else knows what he means. Is he distinguishing between 4 HRs hit in two games in a day versus in one game?

but he said only one bad thing and he is a yankee fan and then redsock got pissy and laura changed her name to betty but ish was nice, zen was too, but there was censorship and someone is really old and ought to act like i want him to act, but i'll still read, did you know i like the yankees because i am a yankees fan

In '07 some people called him that (I want to say Jere was one, but then I like to blame Jere for everything so don't get mad jere if you are lurking) but that was a name used on WEEI and by dodger fans.